Introduction
Every so often, you get the chance to work with people you genuinely trust, using technology you truly believe in. That’s exactly how I feel about the partnership between ColorTokens and Wavenet.
The press release covers the announcement, but I wanted to explain why this matters to me personally. I’ve known many of the Wavenet team for years and have always respected the way they put customers first. They have exceptional technical capability, deep customer relationships, and a reputation built on doing the right thing. Partnerships built on trust tend to succeed because everyone is pulling in the same direction from day one.
Two Organizations with Complementary Strengths
At ColorTokens we’ve built Xshieldâ„¢ to solve one of the biggest problems in cybersecurity: what happens after an attacker gets in. Enterprise breach readiness is about understanding your environment, identifying attack paths, and stopping lateral movement before a compromise becomes a business outage.
Pair that with Wavenet’s consultancy expertise, managed services capability and nationwide customer presence, and customers get an end-to-end capability rather than just another product.
Rapid Time to Value Through Integration
One of the biggest strengths of Xshield is how quickly customers realize value. Integration with Microsoft Defender, CrowdStrike and SentinelOne allows organizations to leverage their existing EDR investments immediately. ServiceNow integration connects security with IT operations and CMDB data, while SIEM integrations with Microsoft Sentinel, Splunk, IBM QRadar and ArcSight enrich existing SOC workflows.
Cloud-native API integrations across AWS, Azure, and hybrid estates automate discovery and policy deployment. Kubernetes and container platforms are supported natively, allowing security policies to move at cloud speed as workloads scale dynamically.
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Protecting IT, OT, and IoT as One Environment
Today’s organizations span enterprise IT, operational technology and thousands of IoT devices. Xshield provides a common policy framework across all of them, giving visibility into communications, identifying unexpected connections, and applying segmentation without disrupting operations.
Combined with Wavenet’s expertise across networking, cloud, infrastructure, and managed services, customers benefit from both outstanding technology and experienced people who know how to deploy it successfully.
A Customer Journey
Imagine a large manufacturing organization. Wavenet engages with the customer, understands the business, identifies the security objectives, and designs the solution. Xshield rapidly discovers assets through API and EDR integrations, maps application dependencies, identifies attack paths, and highlights unnecessary east-west communication.
Together, we develop a phased segmentation strategy that improves security without disrupting production. The customer gains measurable risk reduction in weeks rather than months, supported by Wavenet’s managed services team.
AI and The Future of Breach Readiness
Artificial Intelligence is changing both sides of cybersecurity. Attackers are moving faster, automating reconnaissance, and developing increasingly sophisticated attacks. Defenders need automation too.
Enterprise breach readiness, continuous visibility, intelligent policy recommendation, and automated segmentation provide organizations with a practical way to reduce risk before an incident escalates.
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Built on Trust
I’ve worked with members of the Wavenet team for years. We’ve solved difficult customer problems together and built strong professional relationships. That mutual trust means we can focus on delivering outcomes rather than spending months learning how to work together.
Focused on Outcomes
This partnership isn’t about selling another security product. It’s about helping organizations improve breach readiness, reduce attack paths, contain ransomware, support Zero Trust, secure hybrid, cloud, IT, OT, and IoT environments, improve operational resilience, and reduce business risk.
Looking Ahead
I’m genuinely excited about what lies ahead. Together we’re combining innovative technology, outstanding consulting capability, and trusted relationships to help organizations become far more resilient against modern cyber threats.
If you’re a CIO, CISO, Head of Infrastructure, or Security Architect and you’re thinking about how to improve breach readiness rather than simply buying another security tool, I’d love to have that conversation.
The future of cyber security isn’t about adding more products. It’s about understanding your environment, integrating what you already own, reducing risk through intelligent automation and ensuring your organization can continue operating when—not if—a breach occurs.
I couldn’t be happier to be making that journey with Wavenet.
